The Mindset Shifts Required to Leave a Comfortable Corporate Career and Scale a Multiple Six Figure Business with Kelly Kussman
Powerhouse Women
Lindsey Schwartz
4.9 • 912 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Are you looking to make the leap from a full-time job into full-time entrepreneurship? Today's episode is for you! I'm sitting down with my friend Kelly Kussman, founder of the clean fragrance line Cayla Gray, to break down exactly how she left a very comfortable corporate career and scaled her company to multiple 6 figures in revenue in 3 years. Spoiler alert: the mindset required to start a business isn't the same mindset that will help you scale it! We're diving deep into the numbers you need to know in order to scale, how to find the perfect business mentor to help you grow, and so much more!
HIGHLIGHTS
01:55 The story of Cayla Gray + updates from the last three years.
04:55 What is the difference in mindsets between launching and scaling a business?
09:00 The key to supporting yourself while making a shift.
14:20 Tips for effectively building meaningful relationships and mentorships.
21:40 How to think differently + scale differently as an entrepreneur.
26:10 Expert business strategies for mapping out the numbers.
31:30 The biggest (+ most surprising!) lessons from Kelly's year of growing inward.
38:20 What do you have to let go of in order to get to the next season?
41:15 What we're most excited about going forward + BTS of our scent collab.
47:05 Celebrating Kelly letting go of control + beating her sales plan by 40%!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I go from managing $2 billion of business to trying to get to my first six figures and feeling like I'm failing left and right. |
| 0:08.0 | When I first started being an entrepreneur, I thought like, I know what I'm doing. |
| 0:12.0 | Like I absolutely know it like. |
| 0:14.0 | To release all of the structure and then now start to be an entrepreneur, I felt very lost and overwhelmed. |
| 0:20.0 | It's a different mentality that gets us to start the business than it is to scale the business. |
| 0:25.9 | For me, analytics are power when you know your numbers and you really understand where things are coming from. |
| 0:31.4 | I started to treat the money seriously. |
| 0:34.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:35.1 | What it did is it legitimized what I was doing. |
| 0:37.2 | I think Lindsay and Kelly three to five |
| 0:39.8 | years ago would be listening to the two of us. Like, what are they on? I'm the woman that I never |
| 0:45.8 | actually knew I could be. I feel like I'm just scratching the surface. |
| 0:51.3 | Welcome to Powerhouse Women. The podcast for women who know they are ready for more. |
| 0:57.7 | Let's go. |
| 0:59.7 | Introducing your host and the founder of Powerhouse Women, Lindsay Schwartz. |
| 1:05.0 | Hi. |
| 1:06.1 | If you're hungry to grow and expand your career, business, and life, you're in the right place. |
| 1:11.3 | You ready for your breakthrough? |
| 1:12.7 | Let's do it. |
| 1:14.9 | If you're someone who is scaling a business right now, and maybe you are even working a full-time |
| 1:25.7 | job while scaling a business and all you want to do |
| 1:29.5 | is be able to make the leap into full-time entrepreneurship. |
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